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With Austin making headlines and ending up on virtually every "Top 10 Best City for..." lists -- we now have about 150 people moving here daily!! We figured we should warn potential new residents of the hidden dangers of moving to Austin.

When we build a new website for our home builder clients, we always try to focus on implementing "best practices search engine optimization (SEO)" to maximize their placement in organic search engine results.

Here's an informal overview of live chat options, outlining how Olark, one of the leading providers, works and its features. We explain how live chat can increase online sales and generate leads no matter the size of your company.

If you are a realtor or real estate broker, you need a website to advertise your business and attract new clients. Get clients to stay on your website by providing access to Multiple Listing Service (MLS) real estate listings.

The unspoken fear all web designers dread - you've been asked to use cursive fonts! There is no escape... yes, it has happened to me, Bob Atchison, many times and I have the battle scars to prove it. Here are some cursive fonts I actually like.

As homes in Austin, Texas are getting more expensive and selling for well over $1 million, many home builders and real estate agents are turning to aerial drone photography and videos to showcase their listings.

Ethereum has been making headlines in the investment community due to it's explosive growth, and potentially revolutionary technology of enabling smart contracts. In the world of cyptocurrencies, Ethereum is currently second only to Bitcoin in market capitalization at over $25 billion.

Pallasart was chosen to create and program a website for Translations and Dialogues: The Reception of Russian Art Abroad a SHERA Conference in Venice, October 25-27, 2017. The site has been completed and is live.

There is no doubt that mobile use of the internet is growing exponentially. Larger screen sizes have made it easier to enjoy web content directly from your phone or tablet. So when developing for a mobile device, which is better a web app or a native mobile app?

Although we are primarily known as an Austin web design company, Pallasart has being selling decorative art and furnishings for many years. This business started online in 1997 and expanded to a retail store in the decorative center in Dallas...

We lost that spirit of allowing others to make their own choices with the defeat of Proposition 1 on May 7th, 2016. A tiny fraction of registered voters ultimately decided the outcome of PROP 1, and effectively imposed their will on everyone else.

The Texas Association of Builders (TAB) announced and presented the 2014 Star Awards Winners. The highly-coveted Star Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in all areas of the home building industry. Olsen-Defendorf Custom Homes won best website for 2014. Pallasart designed and programmed the site.

My name is Rob Moshein and my Grandmother's family has been a mystery for me to trace. There are no records for her family, Feldman, from Poland where she was born. I know she came from a town called Miedzyrech, pronounced "Mid-zrich", as she had told me so, and there are a few mentions of it in some records. Here's a blog post on how I found Uncle Nat.

Pinterest has introduced an extremely valuable tool called "Rich Pins" for businesses looking to drive traffic and sales to their websites. Rich Pins allows businesses to add extra valuable information and content to photos pinned from their website. This information is automatically added when items are pinned (or re-pinned) from the original website that has implemented rich pin functionality.

Pallasart implemented a fresh, clean redesigned look for the Texas Municipal League. We implemented the new website using "responsive design" in order to make the website function well and look nice on mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. The site's layout adapts as the browser view port size changes.

With New Year's Eve right around the corner, it is that time of year that many people start making their New Year's resolutions for the upcoming year. Getting in shape, exercising more, and eating better are often at the top of many resolution lists.

Instagram has announced that they are reverting to their old "Terms of Service" following the uproar over revised language that indicated they might sell their users photos or provide them to advertisers without compensation.

Often we get potential customers asking us about developing mobile websites and apps. Sometimes people confuse the two -- since they are both accessed from mobile devices. This article discuses how they are different.

QR codes (abbreviation for Quick Response codes) are two dimensional matrix barcodes that have become a very popular method for allowing smartphone users to quickly scan a QR code on printed materials and automatically be directed to a website without having to type in a long URL.

These days, people are often accessing the internet through mobile devices like smartphones and tablets - the number of mobile users is only increasing. When designing a website, one should always remember to consider these users and their needs -- with the ultimate question being "Will my website work on a cell phone or tablet?

The web is now the number one environment for business marketing and you need the top-rated Austin web developer and design company to get the success you want. Learn more about the benefits of working with Pallasart...

I first met Nick when we worked together on the Jewels of the Romanovs Exhibition that toured around the USA a few years ago. Pallasart did the website for the exhibition and I gave a lecture at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts on the Alexander Palace and daily life in a Russian palace. In this blog posting Nick gives us an introduction to one of the favorite painters of the last Russian Empress, Alexandra and her sister, Elizabeth....

Great design delivers sheer aesthetic pleasure. It sparks the imagination and inspires that “gotta have it” feeling. Great design tells a great story, the story of your brand and who you are. Every design element helps your story to unfold; every functional aspect advances the plot. Learn about our philosophy about great design and how we create award-winning designs for our clients..

Timothy Corrigan is renowned for his ability to create lush, comfortable and incredibily beautiful interiors. Tim is regularly featured in leading publications on design and living around the world. This article offers guidleines anyone can use to make your home more beautiful and liveable at the same time. Pallasart, top rated web designers in Austin Texas have been working with Timothy for many years...

Everybody seems to be talking about Pinterest. Companies here in Austin and across the world are exploring ways to integrate it into leading edge web design. In the last week I have had a number of people ask us for ideas on how to integrate Pinterest and how it works...

On Sunday April 15, Pallasart and its President Bob Atchison hosted their annual Russian Orthodox Easter Open House. There was an amazing Austin connection relating to the 100th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Titanic.,.

Fleur-de-Stone commissions Pallasart to add exciting Instagram functionality to their popular website "order your own" process with a new feature called Coastergrams. With Coastergrams customers will be able to upload images directly from Instagram onto a set of stone coasters. Pallasart recently completed a complete redesign of the Fleur-de-Stone website. Pallasart is a web design company based in Austin, Texas.

From time to time Pallasart publishes a short summary about Austin and its attractions. As a web design firm with its offices here we are rightly proud of our hometown and like sharing some of the things that makes Austin unique and a fun place to work and live...

Here's a real example of a stunning web design transformation Pallasart just completed for Amanzi Party Rentals. It's amazing - see a new bright and fresh web design for an Austin company. SEO was very important to this customer....

The new iPad resolution of 2,048-by-1,536 pixels allows more content to be viewable onscreen at one time, but at that resolution the text would likely be too small to read without zooming in to enlarge. Learn about the iPad Retina Display and related issues. If you are looking for a web designer in Austin Texas contact Pallasart...

Records numbers of shoppers are turning to the internet to make their holiday purchases. Black Friday and Cyber Monday were extremely popular days for shoppers to make online purchases this year. Tech savvy shoppers are always looking for a bargain, and most use the internet to compare prices and find deals. This holds true for both online and in-store purchases. Users will often view the in-store advertisements online ahead of time, before they venture out to the stores.

An old friend of mine, Bob Massie, has a new book out I think you'd be interested in reading. It's a biography of Catherine II - called 'the Great' in the West. She was a minor German princess in the small state of Anahlt-Zerbst - Sophie was her original name - who came to Russia to marry the heir to throne at the age of 14. Catherine went through many adventures to become the most richest and most powerful woman in the world....

Having an iPhone myself, I'll guess we'll never know how a Flash player would have performed on Apple's hardware. It is likely true that highly interactive Flash elements would have been processor intensive and a battery drain. Given the wide variety of hardware specs on mobile devices, it would have been difficult to determine how your Flash application/element would have performed across those devices....

Courtney Mills has just published an important new article on the recent Google algorithm update and what it means to webmasters and companies with sites on the internet. A link to the article can be found here.

The advantages of Clean URLs and URL rewriting from an SEO perspective are topics we are incorporating as a standard part in the process of planning, designing and programming customer websites. Pallasart has created our own custom PHP rewrite engine for the web and are implementing in all of the sites we create with great success. The most significant advantages are; one, static URL’s rank better in Search Engines; two, Search Engines crawl the content of the static URLs much faster as compared to the dynamic URL and three, static URLs look much prettier and friendlier to the end-user....

TypeKit is a Web-based typography service and it making the web more beautiful, readable, and fast. It offers subscriptions to those who want to use sophisticated fonts in their websites with new abilities in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). We have used TypeKit in a large number of websites with great success. TypeKit is a great way to add a fresh new look to a sie at little or no expense. It is easy to set up and easy to manage...

A few days ago I received an email from a group I subscribe to called "Web Pro News". They provide great information on what's happening in the SEO world and what impact various changes have for web design companies and website mangers who are concerned about search engine placement (isn't this everyone?)....

Well, it has been said — "put a cute dog on a website and you can sell anything". Today is July 4th and what better way to celebrate the holiday than to talk about dogs. Americans well we love our dogs, they are part of our families. There are around 80 million of them sharing our lives here in the USA and that's a lot of dog food (who can guess the number of fleas!)....

Today I read some encouraging news for home builders in Austin. There are signs the market in Austin is about to take off. Shonda Novak of the Austin American Statesman reports new home starts in Q2 of 2011 totaling 1,794. This means builders are close to a turning point.

Here are page views from the "Schaffer Collection of Authentic Imperial Russian Art Treasures". This is a historic catalog of Romanov items - mostly from the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, which was the private residence of the last Tsar, Nicholas II and his family....

There was an article in the New York Times Antiques section about a new exhibition opening at the Virginia Museum of Art. The exhibition has been organized by Geza von Habsburg, one of the recognized experts in Faberge...

The art market on the web is exploding. Collectors are out there spending thousands online for the works of people like yourself — paintings, graphics, sculpture, fine crafts — anything you can create. Now this assumes you have something people want to buy and the price is right...

The Austin American Statesman is reporting a possible deal between the State of Texas and Amazon over online sales tax. Barry Harrell reports that Texas is negotiating - and may be close to a deal - to create 5,000 jobs and invest $300 million in the state.

Here I have created three images showing the same items and text on a white gray and black background. I had to change the text colors a bit because white text and black text would not show up on the same colored backgrounds...

A year ago we commissioned a special Savonnerie carpet to be made by one of our suppliers. There are two types of classic rugs, the Aubusson, which is a flat weave and the Savonnerie which has a sheared pile...

This past Monday Steve Jobs unveiled iCloud, and Apple has now joined Amazon and Google in this new phenomenon. iCloud - like its counterparts are rival companies, will store documents, photos and other content on the internet and sync it across multiple Apple devices at no cost...

Recently we were doing a redesign and reprogramming in PHP of a popular wine site. They have been a client of ours for 10 years. I had a chance to look at many of the famous wine sites again and I have a few comments for this blog...

Recently, I discovered Amazon Music, which seems to sell DRM-free high quality MP3 albums at price points that are a little lower than those sold on Apple's iTunes Music Store - I bought an Amazon album for $6.99, which is $3 lower than the $9.99 charged for the same album on iTunes...

Many users have updated, or should update to the latest browser versions for an optimal web experience. Generally, all the leading browsers had big new releases in late March 2011 -- many timed their product launches to SXSW the big interactive, film and music festival held annually in Austin, TX each spring....

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Online Stores

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Business to Business

In every city there are hundreds of businesses that provide professional services. Most business search for services on the web. If you don’t have a website your chance of landing new accounts is greatly reduced. It is really important that companies have a site that tells your brand story and the services you provide in a compelling way. We focus on your business objectives in creating a site and can provide design, programming, copy writing support. We even do logos. You can reach us at (512) 469-7454.

Real Estate

We’ve created sites for real estate companies providing commercial and residential services to both buyers and sellers. From beautiful online brochures to complex sites with hundreds of listings we create sites for firms of any size. We have the capability to work with various MLS (Multiple Listing Service) data providers to add home listings to your website via an IDX (Internet Data Exchange) feed. Some common third party services that we can work with include IDXBroker, Diverse Solutions, and rewIDX. Let's talk about your new website today - (512) 469-7454.

Fashion and Beauty

We’ve created websites for highly successful businesses in these fields. We can offer everything from wholesale to retail with online stores that can sell a huge range of products. We understand the complexity of selling mass produced and one-of-a-kind items. We also understand the issues associated with sizes, colors and the big images you’ll need to sell your products online. Our carts are easy to use and update. You can easily manage items, inventory and shipping from the custom website we’ll build for you. Let's get started - (512) 469-7454.

Resorts and Ranches

Over the years we have built websites for resorts, hotels, inns and ranches in Texas, the USA and around the world. Pallasart can integrate third-party reservations systems or build custom-made solutions for you. We can also build complete - and complex - payment systems from booking to check-out using Pay Pal, Authorize.net, Stripe and other payment systems.

We specialize in building websites for small to medium sized properties that are family-owned.

Texas Brands

In the beginning - 1997 - our business was global from Paris to California and New York. Today more of our new customers Texas-based. People know and love Austin and the Hill Country. Austin City Limits and SXSW attract people from all over the world. Many of the most trusted brands - like Whole Foods and Dell - are based in Austin. We love it when we get the chance to create websites that want feature Texas or Austin in their products or marketing. We also have huge databases of Texas images to feature in the sites we build. You can reach us at (512) 469-7454.

Wine and Food

Over the years we have created websites for many of the biggest brands in wine, beverage and food sales that have millions of dollars in annual sales. We create sites that offer hundreds of brands, thousands of products and brands in online sales. our shopping carts are easy to operate and can handle any level of sales. Pallasart builds sites for caterers, food producers, websites that can support retail and wholesale sales. we understand the unique issues of shipping and cross-state line sales.